A Study on the Relationship Between Heart Rate and Brain Waves During Programming Task in Several Experiments

Abstract

As the difficulty of a learning task increases, brain waves (β/α) activity also increases. This study investigated the learning state by measuring biometric information aside from than brain waves. We found that heart rate (HR) decreases as the difficulty of the task increases. In this study, we analyzed the results of several experiments with different participants and different target tasks. Specifically, the differences between the mean values of EEG and heart rate obtained in three different experiments were compared using a t-test. From this, we conclude that the more active the brain wave (β/α), the lower the HR. These results may suggest that this may be used to determine the state of where an individual may give up because the task is too challenging.